Andrew Scull - Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
Our guest today is sociologist and author, Doctor Andrew Scull. Andrew is a professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, and recipient of the Roy Porter Medal...
13 Jul 20221h 3min
Kristina Marusic - Pollution's Mental Toll
On our last podcast, Mad in the Family covered the effect of climate change and extreme weather events on children's and mothers' mental health. This one continues the conversation on environmental li...
6 Jul 202228min
Jessica Taylor - Pathologized Since Eve - Women, Trauma, and Sexy but Psycho
Our guest today is Jessica Taylor, author of Sexy But Psycho: How the Patriarchy Uses Women's Trauma Against Them, which was published in March by Little, Brown and quickly hit the London Times bests...
29 Jun 202244min
Jock McLaren – The Biopsychosocial Model is a Mirage, Time for a Biocognitive Model?
On the podcast this week, we hear from Dr. Niall McLaren. Niall, known to many as Jock, is an Australian psychiatrist who worked for 25 years in the remote north of the country. Also an author, Jock's...
15 Jun 202236min
Tara Thiagarajan - Mental Wellbeing Among Internet-enabled Populations of the World
Tara Thiagarajan is founder and chief scientist of Sapien Labs, a nonprofit organization that runs the Mental Health Million Project and its annual Mental State of the World Report, which uses an onli...
8 Jun 202233min
Bruce Cohen - The Failings of "Mental Health": How a Seemingly Benign Concept Might be Dangerous
Dr. Bruce Cohen is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Auckland. His career spans over thirty years where he has time and again used empirical research to tackle the numerous shor...
25 Mai 202252min
Alice and Kenneth Thompson - Bringing Integrative Community Therapy to Pittsburgh
The Visible Hands Collaborative in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is run by Alice Fox Thompson and Kenneth Thompson. Together, the father and daughter team is bringing a novel form of community healing deve...
11 Mai 202259min
